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EPS file appears to be translucent

Explorer ,
Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024

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I have an EPS file of a logo (see attached). When I open the file in Illustrator, it's translucent by default, and I can see no way to modify that. Its fill in the file is set to black, but it looks grey. If I set it to red, it looks pink. When inserting it into a design, I can see background elements through it. Yet the opacity is very obviously set to 100%. I can't figure out how to work with this to make it fit into my designs. Can anyone please explain how I can resolve this issue?

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Community Expert , Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024

It's grouped about a dozen times and in one of those groups there is reduced opacity. 

Can you open it in Illustrator and see that? Or would you rather have a corrected version?

 

In order to correct it:

 

open the file, don't place it.

Object > Ungroup

Repeat the ungrouping until the fill is black

Save the file

or copy the objects.

You might group them again or don't.

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Community Expert , Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024

Apologies, didn't realise that was the EPS attached to your post. Specifically, this group has 50% opacity:

DougARoberts_0-1713453467733.png

 

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Can you share the file?

Failing that, can you show the relevant contents of the layers panel along with your entire Illustrator workspace?

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It's grouped about a dozen times and in one of those groups there is reduced opacity. 

Can you open it in Illustrator and see that? Or would you rather have a corrected version?

 

In order to correct it:

 

open the file, don't place it.

Object > Ungroup

Repeat the ungrouping until the fill is black

Save the file

or copy the objects.

You might group them again or don't.

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Apologies, didn't realise that was the EPS attached to your post. Specifically, this group has 50% opacity:

DougARoberts_0-1713453467733.png

 

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THANK YOU! It never occurred to me that yet another grouping was set differently. I had tried ungrouping twice and wasn't seeing any difference, so I figure ungrouping wasn't actually doing anything. Didn't think to keep ungrouping ad nauseum 😂

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